Catcher in the Rye...

Read it?

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libertytyranny

libertytyranny

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I read it somewhere between 5th and 6th grade. Not really a fan. I liked it ok, but i guess I never got into it like some. And I got really mad when he wouldn't sleep with the prostitute..not sure why.:killingme just seemed unnatural.

It's not on my "classics I loathe list" Like the Awakening is:coffee:
 
Nickel

Nickel

curiouser and curiouser
libertytyranny said:
It's not on my "classics I loathe list" Like the Awakening is:coffee:
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See, I liked The Awakening. I can't really remember why, because the story is pretty jacked up. I think it was probably the writing. :lol: Then again, I hated Pride and Prejudice when I had to read it in high school, but it's one of my favorite books now.
 
Cowgirl

Cowgirl

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I don't think I read it. Heck, I can't remember what I read in high school. :lol: Lots of Shakespeare, and I think Jane Eyre maybe. Who knows what else. :lol:
 
thurley42

thurley42

HY;FR
BuddyLee said:
Typical Steinbeck novel based near the California rusty plains. About a man and his retarded buddy during the Great Depression. Near the climax the buddy commits a horrid act (forget what exactly) and there's a mob looking to string him up. The man finds his buddy first but decides to kill him himself instead of leaving him to the mob. Cue the sobs...
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Lenny snapped Curley's wifes neck!
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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I'm not a big fan of "literature", with it's imagery and symbolism and all that crap. To me a cigar is almost always just a cigar, and I don't care to find a deeper meaning.
 
libertytyranny

libertytyranny

Dream Stealer
vraiblonde said:
I'm not a big fan of "literature", with it's imagery and symbolism and all that crap. To me a cigar is almost always just a cigar, and I don't care to find a deeper meaning.
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But that's is exactly the part I like. When you read a book, no one forces you to see anything other than a cigar. You can see it as a cigar, or you can apply the symbol to the story, but you don't have to do either. And, as I am a master of doing, you can make it mean whatever you want. Some of my best papers have been a crazy thesis and my attempt at making it fit.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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libertytyranny said:
Some of my best papers have been a crazy thesis and my attempt at making it fit.
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My friend Meg used to do that in our HS lit class, make up some weird allegorical theme for whatever lame book we were reading. I was like, how did you get that out of this?? And she'd reply, I didn't - I just made that up to screw with the teacher. :lol:

I'm surprised they didn't have her locked up.
 
kwillia

kwillia

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It was required summer reading for me. I was a total book worm, avid reader but I only made it thru about 2 chapters and then chucked it across the room.

That was the one and only book report I didn't have ready to turn in on the day it was due in my entire school career. Lucky for me my teacher told me if I wrote a 1500 word essay explaining why I didn't do it and turned it in the next day, he would grade it and that would be my grade for the missing report. I proceeded to craft "My Procrastinating Vacation" and was given an A-. :biggrin:
 
glhs837

glhs837

Power with Control
Yes, I certainly wasn't averse to reading, they wanted me to read this in I think 8th or 9th grade (suburb of Boston, late 70s), and by that time I had already read the entire Lord of the Rings, and the Complete Sherlock Holmes, amongst hundreds of other books, and enjoyed the Shakespeare they had tossed our way. But those first two chapters were so damn depressing.
 
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